Manual, periodic, and reactive Know Your Customer (KYC) approaches leave institutions vulnerable to evolving financial crime risks while driving up compliance costs and degrading the customer experience. Many institutions operate fragmented technology ecosystems, with multiple modules handling functions separately, such as identity verification, transaction monitoring, and customer screening.
The surge in financial crime sophistication requires more responsive monitoring approaches. Harnessing advanced technologies like behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring, and intelligent automation can support more ongoing and informed KYC strategies and enterprise risk recognition. This report examines the current perpetual KYC (pKYC) ecosystem, including major market dynamics as well as the pKYC capabilities of solution providers that can help financial institutions navigate this complex endeavor. This report profiles Alloy, Eastnets, Emcompass, Feedzai, Fenergo, Moody’s, Nasdaq Verifin, NICE Actimize, Oracle, Owlin, smartKYC, and SymphonyAI.
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About the Author

Chuck Subrt
Charles (Chuck) Subrt is the Director of Datos Insights' Fraud & AML practice, and he covers anti-money laundering and compliance issues. Chuck brings 20 years of legal and compliance experience and a deep expertise advising business leaders, driving change, and establishing strong, self-sustaining AML and financial crime compliance and risk management programs at a global financial services company. For the past 10 years, Chuck led multiple compliance functions for Sun...
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Gabrielle Inhofe
Gabrielle Inhofe is a Senior Associate with Datos Insights’s Fraud & AML team. Her primary interests include cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and EU policy. Prior to joining Datos Insights, Gabrielle worked in Strategy and Global Regulations at cybersecurity company OneSpan, where she wrote the 2022 Global Financial Regulations Report. Gabrielle has a Masters in Advanced European and International Studies from the...